On Saturday at 8AM, fan track Apocalypse Rising hosted public health expert Dorothy Lowry, food scientist George Cavender, and geophysicist Mika McKinnon to talk about the coronavirus pandemic and general disaster preparedness since 2020 has turned, seemingly, into one big cluster that has robbed us of everything normal and joyful. (Case in point: no in-person Dragon Con.) And, as moderator… Read more →
The multi-award novelist and 2020 Literary Guest of Honor John Scalzi was on the Main Events channel Saturday at 1PM. He was sitting in his office in Ohio, while the moderator, Brian, was in Oregon. Even apart, we are together during Dragon Con. Overall, Scalzi’s days have not really changed since the quarantine. Being an introvert, he tends to stay… Read more →
Friday at 8PM, the Star Wars Track welcomed Bryan Young (moderator), Amy Richau, Marie C Gould, Hoai-Tran Bui, and Kai Charles for a panel focusing on the films that have influenced Star Wars directors and creators, from George Lucas to Jon Favreau, via their Facebook Group Page and their YouTube channel. At the forefront, and dominating the conversation is the… Read more →
Friday morning at 11AM on the Fan Tracks channel, a panel of female creatives assembled to discuss publishing, writing, editing, comics, and art from a woman’s viewpoint. Moderator Sheena Wiley, Georgia McBride, Chantelle Aimée Osman, and Christine Taylor-Butler talked about everything from their start as authors to how others see women as writers in Writers’ Panel: A Woman’s Perspective. To… Read more →
Jim Wert of the High Fantasy Track along with Kirsten Cairns (TheOneRing.Net) and Rebecca Perry gave us an update and the latest news on publications and television projects currently under development in the world of JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth. During the panel, broadcast on the High Fantasy track’s YouTube page Saturday morning, Cairns was quick to point out that while… Read more →
A select panel of urban fantasy authors pondered traditions and fresh ideas in depicting the Fae in their work on Saturday at 10AM, Urban Fantasy YouTube. Moderated by Carol Malcolm, panelists Patricia Biggs, Jim Butcher, Cecilia Dominic, Lisa Manifold, and Bishop O’Connell discussed “Favors, Bargains and Glamours: The Fae in Urban Fantasy.” Although the authors agreed on certain legends concerning… Read more →
On Thursday at 11PM on the Fan Tracks channel, the Fantasy Literature track hosted “Culture and Magic.” Panelists D.J. Butler, Doug Burberry, R.R. Virdi, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Day Al-Mohamed discussed how a culture could influence magic as well as how magic could influence a culture. The panel began by pointing out that, because they are so intertwined, it is… Read more →
On Friday afternoon, I took advantage of Mentoring Sessions offered by the Writers Track to meet with author Mari Mancusi. Mancusi primarily writes middle grade and young adult books and transitioned from journalist to full-time author earlier in her career. She walked me through how she handled those changes, and how she could envision accommodating both a writing career and… Read more →
